Pompano woman killed in turnpike crash early Wednesday

A 35-year-old woman was killed Wednesday in a pre-dawn crash on Florida's Turnpike when the SUV she was driving struck a guardrail and she was thrown from the vehicle, police said.

Diana Marie Acevedo of Pompano Beach was pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:25 a.m. crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Acevedo was at the wheel of a 1996 Ford Explorer and heading north, investigators said, when she apparently lost control and hit the guardrail on the east shoulder of the road just north of Atlantic Boulevard.

The SUV overturned, and Acevedo was ejected, police said. She was not wearing a seat belt, authorities said.

The turnpike's northbound lanes at the crash site, north of Atlantic Boulevard, were closed after the crash and were reopened at 6 a.m., the Highway Patrol said.